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ENROLLED HB 5001, ENGROSSED 1 2024 LEGISLATURE ______________________________________________________________________________ SECTION 3 - HUMAN SERVICES Release is contingent upon a submission of a detailed operational work plan and a monthly spend plan that identifies all project work and costs budgeted for Fiscal Year 2024-2025. 256 SPECIAL CATEGORIES GRANTS AND AIDS - CONTRACTED SERVICES FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND . . . . . 1,988,073 FROM OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,043,094 From the funds in Specific Appropriation 256, $500,000 in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is provided for the Special Olympics (recurring base appropriations project). 256A SPECIAL CATEGORIES FLORIDA ACCOUNTING INFORMATION RESOURCE (FLAIR) SYSTEM REPLACEMENT FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND . . . . . 418,500 FROM OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND . . . . . . . . . . . . 256,500 Funds in Specific Appropriation 256A are provided to implement the remediation tasks necessary to integrate agency applications with the new Florida Planning, Accounting, and Ledger Management (PALM) System. 257 SPECIAL CATEGORIES AGENCY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES - ICONNECT FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND . . . . . 2,664,397 FROM OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,539,396 From the funds in Specific Appropriation 257, $1,880,963 in nonrecurring funds from the General Revenue Fund and $1,880,962 in nonrecurring funds from the Operations and Maintenance Trust Fund are provided to the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to continue implementation and enhancement of the iConnect system for the purpose of providing electronic visit verification of service delivery to recipients by providers, and electronic service authorizations for Developmental Disabilities Medicaid Waiver services. Of these funds, $500,000 in nonrecurring funds from the General Revenue Fund and $500,000 in nonrecurring funds from the Operations and Maintenance Trust Fund shall be used to contract with an independent software quality assurance and testing provider to engage with stakeholders and provide an assessment of the iConnect project by March 1, 2025. The contract shall require that all deliverables be simultaneously provided to the agency, the Executive Office of the Governor’s Office of Policy and Budget, the chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, and the chair of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee. The agency, at a minimum, shall continue to provide enhanced technical assistance and host feedback and listening sessions with service providers to plan for future system enhancements. The agency shall not begin compliance monitoring or recoupment of funds during the fiscal year. The agency shall submit quarterly project status reports to the Executive Office of the Governor’s Office of Policy and Budget, the chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, and the chair of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee within 30 days after the last business day of the preceding quarter. Each status report must include relevant copies of each task order, contract(s), purchase orders, and invoices. The agency must include a monthly spend plan that identifies all project work and costs budgeted for Fiscal Year 2024-2025, the progress made to date for each project milestone, deliverable, and task order, planned and actual deliverable completion dates, planned and actual costs incurred, and any project issues and risks. Additionally, the report must also include a complete list of issues and/or help desk tickets that details the reporting entity, the date the issue was reported, a description of the issue, resolution and/or anticipated resolution, and the date of resolution and/or anticipated resolution. The list of issues must be inclusive of those reported by internal and external stakeholders. 258 SPECIAL CATEGORIES RISK MANAGEMENT INSURANCE FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND . . . . . 104,407 87